hammerstone
hammerstone noun: a type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
Noun
hammerstone (plural hammerstones)
- A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
- Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 ).2001 March 2, Stanley H. Ambrose, “Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5509, →DOI, pages 1748–1753
- On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck.1905, Andrew Lang, The Clyde Mystery
hammerstone meaning in Tamil
hammerstone in Tamil
- கற்சம்மட்டி
Forms of hammerstone
| plural | hammerstones |
|---|
Origin of hammerstone
From hammer + stone.
Questions about hammerstone
- What does hammerstone mean?
- Hammerstone means a type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
- What is hammerstone in Tamil?
- Hammerstone in Tamil is கற்சம்மட்டி. See Hammerstone meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hammerstone?
- Hammerstone is a noun.
- What is the plural of hammerstone?
- The plural of hammerstone is hammerstones.
Words near hammerstone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hammerstone (page history and authors); hammerstone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “hammerstone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hammerstone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.